Bowl Games Volume 1

Today Bowl Fever SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPS through college football outposts across the nation.  From Annapolis to Colorado Springs, from Tampa to Tucson fans are ready to cheer on their squads in small numbers (most likely).

11:00 AM-  We will start with what looks like the AM snoozefest.  Navy and Wake Forest get together to play in the inaugural Eagle Bank Bowl.  Fans will be treated to Wake’s terrible passing game and Navy’s nearly non-existent passing game.  The over is 44.  The last time these two squads met the score was 24-17 Navy.

This time just take the over (44), as  I have no idea who will win this game.

Team A 28
Team B 21

2:30PM-  Colorado State and Fresno State tangle in the New Mexico Bowl, and for the first time the New Mexico Lobos will not be in attendance.

Fresno State has had a disappointing season by their standards and Colorado State is an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, then deep fried.

I’ll take Fresno State -3.

Fresno 35
CSU 28

4:30 PM-  South Florida meets Memphis in the St. Petersburg Bowl played in the ugliest baseball stadium in America.  Both teams have not had great seasons.  Memphis’ biggest win came against Southern Miss who ended the season 6-6 (an identical record to Memphis).

South Florida on the other hand, went 2-5 in the Big East and did beat Kansas.  They started the season 5-0 then went 2-5 down the stretch to find themselves in this “bowl.”

South Florida is giving 11, but I think they’ll be fine.

USF 30
Memphis 10

8:00 PM-  The thrilling nightcap is a tilt between BYU and Arizona which should provide the best game of the day in the Las Vegas Bowl.

BYU is ranked #16 in the nation and they are getting 3 points?  They were 10-2 and the PAC 10 is not that awesome.  I’ll take the field goal and laugh my way to the bank.

BYU 24
Arizona 14

Bet fiddy across.

Gill Inked

3 years and two days ago the University at Buffalo embarked on a new mission to raise their program from it’s lackluster on-field performance and bring in a new coach with a proven track record to provide the meager fan base something, anything that would make them competitive.

They found a coach, who when first contacted did not know that Buffalo had a division I-A program after the new Athletic Director with a Michigan pedigree couldn’t even get people in his inner circle to provide him with ANYONE that had ANY interest in signing on to become Buffalo’s new head man.

He, or the search committee placed a call to a Player Development Director with the Green Bay Packers to gauge his interest in the position.  He was going to out and out decline the invitation to interview, but then after discussing it with his wife he changed his mind and felt that at the very least this interview would at least prepare him for future job openings.

LWN And TMOC Go Head To Head

 

LWN and The Man of Cheese got together at the LWN staff offices to go Head to Head for a battle of college bowl supremacy.  Each remaining bowl game was chosen by the two, and a coin flip determined first choice in team picking.  We went through the games chronologically and chose using spreads available on 12/21.  The team not chosen by the writer was given to the other writer.  For example, if LWN chose Memphis +3.5, TMOC got FAU -3.5 and so on.

LWN’s Administrative Assistant Picks The Bowls

My master plan was to have the esteemed writers of LWN’s Sports Blog go head to head with the Admin Assistant picking bowl games.  So far Admin Assistant is the only one to give me the picks.  I guess when you don’t pay your writers they get to you whence they can.

Without further ado, these are the picks of someone who knows nothing about football except the following three things.

1. Indianapolis has a football team
2. That team’s nickname is the Colts
3. The Colts Quarterback is Peyton Manning

Here are her picks in choronological order.  No spreads were used, the games were chosen straight up.

College Football Bowl Preview – Edition 1

“College Coaches Are No Different Than South American Freedom Fighters.”

 

An open letter to college coaches-

Dear Money Grubbing Ego-maniacal Scumbags:

I understand that coaching can be a brutal profession, but as Gregg Easterbrook pointed out, it can also be done by volunteers (unlike surgeons).  The only reason that your families collapse, your health fades and you sleep in your offices is because each of you are trying to keep up with the Joneses.

College Football Week Non-existent/ Heisman Hype

We have entered the doldrums of the 2007 college football season. While this is sad, we can reflect on the season. We can also discuss the Heisman Trophy which will be handed out on Saturday.

The season began with a bang, and ended with a thud for some teams. Let’s look at some of the madness that occurred.

Coaches Have Lost Their Voting Minds!

The Man of Cheese gives us a look at the seedy underbelly of coaches polls and their effect on the season as well as why you should not play a tough out of conference schedule.

So I took a look at the way the coaches voted in the final USA Today Coaches Poll. If you don’t know, this poll is a major factor in the BCS rankings. A few things that jump out at me from looking at this…

It’s Monday and I AM Angry Part IV

Fox’s Troy Aikman and Joe Buck need to stop announcing Giants games or my beautiful television might not survive. Their unprofessional rhetoric is getting old, damn quick. I have never seen a broadcast team go out of their way to talk so poorly about a player who has never been convicted of a crime.

If this seems like something I wrote before, that’s because I did.

“So who gets screwed this year?” – BCS 2007

If you were bored by College Football this year, then you will NEVER find it exciting. Perhaps you should take up knitting or gardening, or get a lapdog that you can dress up. Seemingly every week a #2 team would lose, throwing a wrench in the indestructible gears of the BCS machine. I cant even tell you how many OT thrillers, or insane comebacks there were this year. Hell, the year started with a Michican loss to Appy State. It was a speeding train of awesomeness that, last night, slammed into a wall. No one could have predicted this year, so what better way to decide the fate of these teams than a bunch of old guys casting votes? It seems so logical!! Why let teams play it out for the best in the country? I know, every year we debate this, every year someone gets screwed, every year nothing changes. Still, it must be said. So air your grievances LWN fans, after all it is Monday and you are probably at work, what else do you have to do?